In this week’s podcast we once again dive into the hot topic of the Apple Vision Pro. Pre-orders kicked off today and I can tell you that we personally will not be diving in head first on this new product. Will you? We also get to our lone listener email from this week, which leads to some interesting discussion as always, and then we finish things off with some real-deal on-topic mobile gaming discussion, talking about two recently soft-launched games The Elder Scrolls: Castles and Plants vs Zombies 3: Welcome to Zomburbia. Don’t forget to shoot us emails with any…
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This week is relatively quiet for Apple Arcade. After the first week saw a few notable new releases, we’ve been getting updates for games throughout with more games arriving next month. Let’s get into the updates then. Cut the Rope 3 brings in 21 new levels with 7 new Nommies, skippable animations, and more additions like Boulders to puzzles. Gibbon: Beyond the Trees has gotten its first update in almost a year adding in reactions from Humans to gibbons passing by, performance optimizations, improved animations, and other fixes to make the game better in what the team calls the Final…
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for January 18th, 2023. It’s Thursday, and in a lot of ways it feels like the first proper Thursday of the year. We have a fairly hefty bag full of new releases to check out today, and only a few of them made me want to launch myself into the Sun. Not bad! After that, we have a gander at the newest sales and expiring discounts for the day. Let’s dust ourselves off and dive into the pile! New Releases Prince of Persia The Lost Crown ($49.99) The latest game in…
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Funselektor’s Art of Rally () was announced for iOS and Android recently through Noodlecake Games, and it released on iOS today following a delay. I’ve not had much time to play it yet, but have been checking it out on Switch and Steam Deck leading into today’s iOS release. If you’ve not played it, Art of Rally is a gorgeous racer that feels very calming to play. I got confirmation from the developers that Art of Rally on iOS includes almost all updates and improvements from the PC and console version, but the Australia DLC will be arriving alongside the…
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for January 17th, 2024. In today’s article, we kick things off with a bit of news from our pal Mikhail. After that, I’ve got a review for you of the latest EGGCONSOLE release, Marchen Veil. There’s only one new release today, and we’ll take a look at that in our usual manner. Finally, we close things out with the usual lists of new sales and expiring discounts. Let’s head on in and see what’s what! News Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story Gets Release Date With Pre-Orders Now Live Riot…
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Red Nexus Games’ pachinko roguelike Peglin (Free) has hit 0.9.44 with many Roundrel-focused changes and additions in its first official update for 2024. If you’ve not kept up with the game lately, we had an update go live at the end of December already, and it looks like Red Nexus Games is continuing to bring the mobile version of the game updates soon after the PC version sees them. The focus of the update is Roundrel with many new relics for it, a new Boss relic, new scenario, new scenario relic, changes for Refreshircle and Critsoballos, and other adjustments. Details…
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One of the more aesthetically pleasing games I’ve encountered over the years is Widower’s Sky from developer Whaleo, a game we first spotted way back in early 2016 and followed along until it finally released in the fall of 2019. The visuals and especially the narrative elements really stood out in Widower’s Sky, and after such a long development cycle I was excited to see what would come next from this mostly solo developer. Well it was actually close to two years ago that the first glimpses of that next project, called The Valley of the Architects, were unveiled in…
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I’ve done quite a few lists rounding up what I think are the best games in Hamster’s ridiculously large catalog of Arcade Archives games, often breaking them down by genre. I’m doing something a little different this time. New year, new approach. Thanks to its weekly release schedule, Hamster released more than fifty new games in the line last year on Nintendo Switch and Sony PlayStation 4. Buying all of them would cost a good chunk of change, even at the very reasonable price Hamster charges per game. I’ve decided to help you out by picking what I think are…
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for January 15th, 2024. It’s a holiday today in the United States, but I live elsewhere so here I am. We’ve got a few reviews for you today. I take a look at Shinorubi and Headbangers: Rhythm Royale, while our pal Mikhail gives his thoughts on the Persona 5 Tactica expansion DLC. After that, it’s time for the new releases of the day. The early access Deluxe Edition of Prince of Persia The Lost Crown leads the charge, but there are a few other games to look at including Legend of…
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Following its initial launch and warm reception on consoles and PCs back in 2020, the kingdom management simulation game Yes, Your Grace from developer Brave at Night and publisher No More Robots is now coming to mobile devices courtesy of the fine folks at Noodlecake Games. Yes, Your Grace has you playing as King Eryk of Davern who oversees the kingdom alongside his wife Queen Aurelea and their three daughters. You’ll manage day-to-day type tasks like helping out your citizens with their issues, managing your military, managing your finances, and much more. However there is also an overarching storyline that…
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Back in November, I wrote about the best games and the best indie games to play on Steam Deck OLED. Since then, I’ve had some folks reach out asking about the best PC games with native HDR support to play on Steam Deck OLED. Here we are. The games I’ve featured here have some overlap with the prior lists, but I’ve focused on highlighting games that look and run great with native HDR on Steam Deck. Steam doesn’t make what games have HDR support obvious, and you usually need to rely on the forums or the developer pages to find…
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Welcome to the first Steam Deck Weekly of 2024 following the one I did before the holiday break covering Custom Mech Wars, Tekken 8’s demo, and more on Steam Deck. This month is quite busy towards the end with new game releases on Steam and other platforms, and there have been quite a few notable Steam Deck Verified games in the last few weeks. Ahead of the busy review season beginning, we also have quite a bit of new gameplay for many of the games I’m looking forward to playing on Steam Deck in the coming months. Let’s get into…
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I remember when Reigns first came out back in 2016 and it kind of blew everyone’s mind that someone would take the simplistic binary left/right swiping of Tinder and create an entire game around it. I mean, so many games are just a series of yes and no choices anyway, and the actual motion of swiping left or right on your phone’s screen is weirdly satisfying, so it makes a lot of sense that it all came together to create a phenomenal mobile game. But… what about up and down? Are we so cruel as to forget two of the…
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In this week’s TouchArcade Show podcast we spend darn near the entire episode talking about the Apple Vision Pro since Apple unveiled the device’s February 2nd release date this past Monday. Will we get one? Will you get one? Will anyone get one? We then turn to listener emails which leads to discussion about Apple’s extremely convoluted iPad lineup (at least to me) as well as the current state of our Patreon thanks to some very helpful advice from a listener. Did you know we had a Patreon? I should probably mention that more. Don’t forget to shoot us emails…
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for January 12th, 2024. It’s the end of the week, and we’re finally starting to see a pulse return to the eShop. We start things off with a bit of Nintendo Switch Online retro game news, then head into a fairly healthy crop of new releases to finish out the week with. We finish things out as we always do, with the lists of new sales and expiring discounts. Let’s get to work! News ‘Golden Sun’ & ‘Golden Sun: The Lost Age’ Will Come to Nintendo Switch Online Next Week Golden…
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This week, following the huge update for Hello Kitty Island Adventure, we have quite a few notable updates for games on Apple Arcade. LEGO DUPLO World+ has a free Dragon puzzle and Chinese Lantern Hunt for Chinese New Year with today’s update. Jetpack Joyride 2 2.5.10 brings in a new volume of the sticker album, a new camouflage skin, a new jetpack, the hamster ball vehicle, a new avatar, and more. Stitch. gets new Lunar New Year celebration exclusive hoops each Wednesday, a Makar Sankranti event until next week, and more content planned for the month. Kingdoms: Merge and Build…
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for January 11th, 2024. It’s Thursday, and that means we have a whole bunch of new releases! What’s that? Hm. I see. Okay, I’ll try to work with it. It’s Thursday, and that means we have a few new releases! For whatever it’s worth, most of them look fine enough for what they’re trying to do. We’ve got summaries of all of them, plus the lists of new and expiring sales for the day. Surprisingly, it’s looking like tomorrow is going to be the big release day of this week. Let’s…
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Happy Friday, and Happy New Year! This is traditionally a very dead time for mobile gaming news and new releases, and 2024 has not bucked that trend. I didn’t bother doing a new games round-up on Wednesday since there were only 3 new releases that I could find, so I’ll just roll those into next week’s round-up. But that also meant that with no new games, there can’t be a Game of the Week. So in lieu of a Game of the Week I figured I’d do a post that rounds up all of our Best of 2023 coverage across…
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The holidays are more or less officially over for everyone now, and folks are heading back into the office and trying to get into the swing of things. The hard-working developers behind Marvel Snap (Free) at Second Dinner are back on the job, and they’ve decided to share the current roadmap for the game. As usual, it’s divided into things that are coming soon, things that are in development, and things that are still in concept. Let’s run through what we can expect in the coming months from the game. There’s actually a fair bit on the immediate horizon. First…
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for January 4th, 2023. It’s Thursday, and that normally means we have a lot of new games to look at. Not today, though! Today we have a whopping three new releases, and one of them is of highly dubious quality. That means I have another review for you, this time looking at The Monty Mole Collection. After that, we go through those new releases such as they are, then head over to the lists of new and outgoing sales. Let’s get to what we’ve got! Reviews & Mini-Views The Monty Mole…
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Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat (), the mobile entry in the superb Devil May Cry series from Nebula Joy and Capcom, has always looked great, but it finally feels like a modern Devil May Cry game thanks to its new theme song. The Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat theme song “Fire Inside” has been composed and producer by Casey Edwards (Devil Trigger, Bury the Light), features vocals by Victor Borba (Bury the Light), drums by Anup Sastry (Bury the Light, Exohuman), and mixed by Zakk Cervini at MDDN Studios. If you’ve not played Devil May Cry 5 or…
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I’m not totally sure how I feel about Grift: Scam Tycoon, the new game coming later this month from Chief Emoji Officer developer Bodeville. I mean the premise is kinda… messed up? But also awesome? You play as a goat named Henry Horns, which right off the bat is a strong start, and you’ve fallen in love with your soulmate online named Gwendolyn Goat. After doing the online courting thing for some time tragedy strikes and Gwendolyn needs some cash, fast! Being that she’s the love of your life you happily oblige, only to find her entire online presence wiped…
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Back in 2016 Firi Games launched Phoenix 2, a fantastic randomly-generated bullet hell shooter and sequel to their 2010 fan-favorite original. Phoenix 2 would go on to live a very happy and healthy life, receiving frequent content updates and also always being ready and willing to adopt whatever new technology or features Apple was packing into its new versions of iOS. I’m pretty sure Phoenix 2 was the very first game ever to support 120hz screens when those launched on the iPad Pro a number of years back, and that’s just one example. However, one area where Phoenix 2 has…
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the year 2024. In today’s thrilling New Year’s Day edition of the SwitchArcade Round-Up, we have… not a whole lot. But I had some spare time, and any trash I take out today is trash I don’t have to take out tomorrow. We do have one decent game to check out today, and we’re going to do just that. The Bin Bunch has plenty to offer today, as you might expect. We also have some decent sales to look at, and that’s one of the reasons I decided to put fingers to the keyboard…
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Niantic and Capcom just revealed the Monster Hunter Now (Free) January 2024 events for the game on iOS and Android. In addition to Qualily’s Special Quests (Carpenterbugs, Monster Bons+, Zenny, and more) returning, this month will see Azure Rathalos descend into Monster Hunter Now as a part of the “Descent of the Azure King” quest. I’m glad Azure Rathalos will have a boosted appearance rate throughout the event in forest habitats and not only during specific times of the day. For some reason, we are getting an event focused on Banbaro and Radobaan with increased boost rates as well. I’ve…
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Despite being late in its lifecycle, the Switch had a fantastic 2023 thanks to a steady flow of superb first party releases and many third party titles across big and small developers. It is now time to look forward with 2024 still bringing loads of games to Switch that I’m excited to check out through exclusives and multi-platform releases. Here are the best upcoming Nintendo Switch games for 2024 that I want to play in no particular order. The best upcoming Nintendo Switch games for 2024 SaGa Emerald Beyond Why is SaGa in this list as well? I mean if…
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Before the holidays, Red Nexus Games shipped out version 0.9.4 for its pachinko roguelike Peglin (Free) on Steam. That update has finally arrived on mobile today bringing in the new Mines miniboss, two new regular battles, overhauled art for orbs and enemies, sound effects upgrades, the Redoublet relic, and many balance adjustments. Details for the bug fixes and all the balance adjustments are on the Steam page here. Peglin is also set to hit 1.0 this year, and I’m curious to see how it evolves leading into that launch. If you’re interested in checking out the game right now, read…
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With the Steam Deck’s second year behind it, the system has only gotten better when it comes to game performance, software, features, and even hardware thanks to the Steam Deck OLED. Regardless of if you have a Steam Deck LCD or OLED mode, these are our picks for the best 10 games to play on Steam Deck from 2023. This list is in no particular order, and it has been very difficult narrowing down this to just 10 games with so many fantastic releases on Steam this past year. The best Steam Deck games of 2023 Octopath Traveler II While…
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Howdy folks, and welcome to the end of 2023! What a year it has been for mobile gaming, but that’s pretty much true for every year. As I’ve said before, there are so many new games hitting the App Store each and every week throughout the entire year that if even just one or two of those games are good each week that’s still a whole heck of a lot of great games that pile up by the end of the year. Throw in the subscription services like Apple Arcade and Netflix, and newcomer Crunchyroll, and the quality and quantity…
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As we talked about in our previous Best Games of 2023 list, it was a banner year for mobile gaming. But not just mobile gaming, but all platforms were graced with all sorts of awesome games throughout 2023. We are first and foremost a mobile gaming site, but when the Nintendo Switch launched in 2017 we were huge fans, and since it did fit in pretty well with what we were doing on TouchArcade already we’ve since welcomed it into part of our daily coverage. Then last year the Steam Deck launched, and while I wouldn’t say it’s quite as…
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Hello once again, friends. We’re back with another vital piece of our best of 2023 roll-out. Regular readers will recognize this pattern. Today, we’re giving out some Genre Awards. I’ve grabbed a bunch of different popular genres and selected my favorite game in each category. There’s also a runner-up for each in case you want more to chew on. Let’s dive on in and have a look at what I think are the best of the bunch in each genre for this year. And of course, feel free to comment below with your picks if they’re different. Best Platformer Game…
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 28th, 2023. We’re almost at the end of the year now, and this is the last Thursday of 2023. We’re not exactly going out with a bang, with only a small number of new releases to look at. Even worse, only a couple of them are outside of the bin. There are also some new sales, but not so many as you might hope for. Well, at least there are the Genre Awards to look forward to today? Let’s look at what we’ve got for the day! New Releases…
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Hello, friends. It’s that time of the year again. Pretty much all the games that are coming in 2023 have come. We’ve been winding down the year with some of our top picks on the Nintendo Switch this year in various categories, all leading up to our overall top ten games of the year on Friday. This time we opted to split out the Best Indie Games list from the Best Hidden Gems, which you would have seen yesterday from Mikhail. The truth of the matter is that not all indie games are hidden, and not all hidden gems are…
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A lot has happened in 2023 for games across platforms, and while many consider this the best year since 2017 for all the big and awesome games, there are also many that went under the radar. I’ve covered most of them before, but let this list serve as a reminder if you already own any of these games. For the rest of you, hopefully you discover something you end up liking because I love these games and hope more folks give them a shot. As usual, this list is in no particular order. The best hidden gems on Nintendo Switch…
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Square Enix just announced that tactical RPG Dragon Quest Tact (Free) for iOS and Android will be shutting down in February 2024, about two years after launching in the West. Dragon Quest Tact released in Japan a while ago, and it hit the West in early 2021 following Dragon Quest Tact pre-registrations going live. The free to play tactical RPG based on the Dragon Quest series for mobile platforms has just had in app purchases disabled and Passport renewals stopped alongside today’s announcement of the service ending. Square Enix will have events going on until the servers are shut down…
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I’ve always enjoyed covering Nintendo Switch ports of games from other platforms to see how the developers enhance experiences with the Switch’s hardware, or what compromises are made to deliver as much of the full experience as possible on the go for Nintendo Switch owners. With the Switch in potentially its final year(s), there are still many fantastic games hitting the platform alongside or later than other platforms. This feature will highlight the best ports and re-releasesof 2023 on Nintendo Switch including remakes, remasters, and more. This list is in no particular order. The Best Nintendo Switch Ports of 2023…
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Death Stranding Director’s Cut from Kojima Productions and 505 Games was recently delayed to early 2024 for iPhone 15 Pro, iPad, and macOS. Following the delay, Backbone has revealed a new Death Stranding Director’s Cut themed Backbone controller in a Tweet showcasing the controller with Hideo Kojima. This design matches the Death Stranding PS4 Pro Limited Edition console controller and I assume this will be a super limited release. A price point or more information aren’t available right now, but I will be trying to get this as soon as possible. Check out the Tweet from Backbone below: Backbone x…
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Welcome to the final Steam Deck Weekly feature for 2023. Yes, another year has gone by and the Steam Deck keeps getting better than ever before through updates (barring Valve’s recent update that broke a lot on the Docked experience for me), and ahead of next week’s end of year features and lists, this feature will cover some impressions, a review of the fun Custom Mech Wars and two Double Dragon releases, impressions of a few recent games and demos and more. There are also quite a few newly-Verified games on Steam for Steam Deck. Let’s get into it all…
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 22nd, 2023. It’s the final edition before Christmas, and I’ll likely be running a special of some kind on Monday so I can spend the day with my family. As you might expect given the calendar date, today’s new releases aren’t particularly fancy. But they are here, and we have summarized them as we do. There’s also a massive holiday special going on. As usual, I’m doing a separate feature with the best of the best, but I’ll also be listing some here in case you’re looking for a…
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What? Is it even allowed in the TouchArcade bylaws to pick multiple games for a Game of the Week? Well, I’m doing it, even if it means being sent to Video Game Jail. Now I should probably preface this with the fact that I have not previously played these Definitive Edition versions of the GTA games on other platforms, and if you even kinda sorta follow the video games scene you’ll remember that they were quite the mess when they launched back in November of 2021. So I have the benefit of experiencing these games after two years of updates…
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In Ep. 576 of The TouchArcade Show we touch on a variety of topics, as usual. We start off talking a bit about our plans for Christmas, which is coming up on Monday, as well as the state of electronic toys for children nowadays. Anyone else have those Tiger Electronics-style gaming watches back in the ’80s and early ’90s? We then hit on how many dang sales are going on across all platforms, and then we move into some of the big mobile gaming stories from the week. Links to all that stuff can be found in the Show Notes…
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Following its big Cosy Collection update last month, Dashy Crashy developer Dumpling Design is back with its huge holiday update for Mr Traffic (Free) on iOS and Android. Today’s update brings in the Toy Collection letting you unlock Festive, Dolly, Howdy, and Tintoy Teds, Chief Ted with missions, the removal of the 3 lives system, new coin surprises, special missions, and more. The update patch notes also mention that there will be a huge update next month following today’s holiday update version 2.4.0. We likely will see more about this update in our forum thread here with some costumes showcased.…
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 21st, 2023. We have a bunch of games to look at in today’s releases, and while there aren’t any seriously big names in the lot I think there are a handful of good ones. After that, we have a rather robust list of new sales to dig into, plus the expiring sales of the day. Only a few days before Christmas now! Let’s go-go-go! New Releases Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat From Your Head To Your Feet ($14.99) It’s been a while since a bunch of…
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As we near the end of 2023, many iOS and iPadOS games have been discounted on the App Store. These include the usual suspects, new games seeing discounts for the first time, historic low prices for some premium games, and more. This big iOS games sale list for 2023’s holiday season includes many games I enjoyed, and some I’ve bought after missing out on them first time around. As usual, we will likely see many game deals rolling out over the next few days. This post will be updated with more deals daily and cover the noteworthy games that are…
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Back in September last year, Gameloft released Disney Dreamlight Valley on consoles and PC platforms as an early access release only available as a purchase with different tiers of founder’s packs. It was initially planned to be a free-to-play release when it exited early access, and has been getting updated quite a bit on consoles and PC. I played it on Switch, Steam Deck, and Xbox Series X last year, and dipped into this year again before it was announced for Apple Arcade. A lot has changed since, and Disney Dreamlight Valley finally exited early access and is available as…
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Super Mario Run (Free) recently celebrated the launch of the brilliant Super Mario Bros. Wonder Switch game with a free unlock campaign on iOS and Android that ended last month. Today, Nintendo has announced (thanks to MondoMega on Twitter for the tip) a new celebration event for Super Mario Run from now until March 15th, 2024 bringing in the Wonder Flowers from Super Mario Bros. Wonder into Toad Rally. This event has been added with today’s 3.1.0 update, and it will have a meter filling up as you perform certain actions in Toad Rally. Once the meter fills up completely,…
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Over the last few years, we’ve published many features covering the best games in specific genres on Nintendo Switch. I’ve enjoyed putting together our end of year posts focusing on the best ports and remasters quite a bit. With Super Mario RPG out now, I decided to put together a list of the best remakes on Nintendo Switch. This will cover games available on older platforms that have been redone for Switch. Note that I’m avoiding basic ports here regardless of how good they are. This list will cover both first and third party games, and it isn’t in any…
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Back in 2021, the legendary Tiny Wings ($1.99) got its 10th anniversary update bringing in the new Manta Island to Flight School with 5 new levels, modern iPad support, and more. 2021 was also when Andreas Illiger’s classic released on Apple Arcade as Tiny Wings+. Today, it has gotten a surprise update with over a hundred multicolored birds to unlock, 15 new missions, new AI for the Flight School portion, and more. The update also adds an optional in app purchase to the standalone game. Watch the original gameplay trailer for it from many years ago below: If you’ve still…
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Niantic and Capcom just revealed a new event in Monster Hunter Now (Free) on iOS and Android to bring in 2024. If you’ve not played the game in a while, they recently added Hunt-a-thons which are raid-like experiences balanced for multiplayer, but playable solo. This was around the time Radobaan, Banbaro, Barioth, and Zinogre were added to the game in the first major title update. The Monster Hunter Now Happy Hunting New Year event sees a boosted appearance rate for Zinogre hunt-a-thons and the return of Pink Rathian and Black Diablos. Pink Rathian will be coming back from December 23rd…
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 15th, 2023. It’s the last day before the weekend, and that means we have to mop up the remaining releases of the week. As you might expect this close to Christmas, we’re not exactly swimming in banner titles today. Still some decent ones, though. We’ve also got a little news for you to snack on, plus the usual lists of new and outgoing sales. Plenty of new sales today, by the looks of it. Let’s get to the games! News The ‘Super Mario Bros. Wonder’ Event in ‘Tetris 99’…
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I can still remember how gobsmacked I was when I first laid eyes on Little Nightmares from Tarsier Studios. It was a trailer from one of the game’s very early reveals, 7 or 8 years ago, and during some manner of gaming event that I can’t quite recall. E3? Gamescom? Who knows. What I do remember vividly was a small child in a raincoat, wandering through some incredibly creepy environments, trying not to draw the attention of some seriously grotesque-looking individuals. The lighting, the depth-of-field trickery, the overall aesthetic of Little Nightmares was something that just spoke to me, and…
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In this week’s episode of The TouchArcade Show we talk about how Eli has fully fallen off the wagon and is back on his World of Warcraft kick again. Some demons never die. We then talk about last week’s The Game Awards show and how we think it could be improved, as well as touch on the latest Epic Games court battle. We then do the unthinkable and talk about… mobile gaming! The latest GTA trilogy release, some upcoming Netflix bangers, how awesome Sonic Dream Team is, and more. Mobile gaming discussion on a mobile gaming podcast, who’d of thunk…